Weird Commercial

~ Clarissa

This is the weirdest commercial. The company is openly saying that they no longer make cool cars.

“See this incredibly cool car? Well, you can’t get it. We don’t make it anymore!”

I really thought they’d reveal something cool at the end.

Losers.

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      1. I thought for a moment there, that they were releasing a retro model. I know people who’d be psyched about that.

        -ethyl

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  2. On a related note, I have to rant about fucking Obama and the CAFE standards that ruined the car industry. This is part of an email I wrote to a friend who was complaining about Trump abolishing CAFE standards.

    Re: CAFE standards being repealed, that might be an instance of the proverbial broken clock being right. Using some complex empirical formulae they determined the MPG targets by factoring in the vehicle’s “footprint” which is the vehicle’s wheelbase multiplied by its wheel track. The idea being, the lower the footprint, the higher fuel economy the vehicle is expected to achieve. And it has had quite literally the opposite effect. Instead of investing in R&D to squeeze out more efficiency out of their smaller cars to meet the already high fuel standards, automakers just started building bigger cars, so they could be classified as “light trucks” and crossovers.

    For example, they made the new Honda Civic much larger to shift it into a more favorable regulatory category. And smaller cars disappeared. Honda Fit, for example, would have had to hit 65+ mpg in 2026 to hit targets so Honda simply stopped manufacturing them. Ironically, CAFE standards have helped make vehicles much larger and less fuel efficient. This is also why smaller, more affordable trucks aren’t made anymore. You either buy a $60000 dodge ram or nothing.

    More details here: 

    https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/10/how-cafe-killed-compact-trucks-and-station-wagons/

    https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/cafe-standards-could-mean-bigger-cars-not-smaller-ones/

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    1. Oh wow, I didn’t know. It’s lunacy, of course. Tons of problems would be solved with a larger number of smaller cars. Who comes up with all this garbage. It’s like these people want to ruin everything on purpose.

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      1. meanwhile, the whole rest of the world can figure out fuel-per-distance. But somehow, not the US. We’re stuck with all these wacky fuel-per-square-inch, and emissions-per-gallon (instead of per mile).

        Is someone paying them to be stupid?

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